"ScienceDaily (Mar. 30, 2010) — Beams collided at 7 trillion (1012) electron volts (or 7 tera electron volts -- TeV) in the Large Hadron Collider on March 30 at 13:06 Central European Summer Time (CEST) at CERN, marking the start of the LHC research programme. Particle physicists around the world are looking forward to a potentially rich harvest of new physics as the LHC begins its first long run at an energy three and a half times higher than previously achieved at a particle accelerator. ..."